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I grew up in
a great home, going to church pretty regularly and I was baptized
when I was very young. I was a good kid, never getting in much
trouble and everyone knew me as the nice girl. I always thought
this meant I was a Christian. However, it wasn’t until I came to
college that I learned there was so much more to being a Christian
than just going to church and being nice.
It took me
coming to college and being taken away from my comfort zone and
everything that I knew to find that I was missing something so
important in my life. I had always found my fulfillment in soccer
and I wasn’t getting playing time, I didn’t know what to do with
myself. I just wanted some sort of consistency to my life and I
wasn’t finding it anywhere. I wanted someone to care about me
unconditionally, and I wanted something that I could depend on to
always be there. My closest friend was a very strong Christian and
I knew there was something different about her that I couldn’t quite
put my finger on. Whatever it is that she had, it’s what I wanted.
It was then that I began to see what
a relationship with the Lord truly looked like, and I knew it’s what
I was desperately seeking. I learned that I could take my faith so
much deeper than I had before, that it could become more than a
routine of some sort, but it was a relationship! I then shifted my
priorities and put God at the forefront of my life, committing to
Him everything I had. No longer did I depend on things of this
world to fulfill me because they were bound to fail.
Since I have been in a relationship
with the Lord I have been completely satisfied by His love alone. I
no longer have to have everything going right in this world to be
content. I am always cared for, always thought about, and always
loved by someone so much bigger than me. I find so much peace
in knowing that the story of my life is about something much bigger
than me.
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